This writer has the same mind - set that separates so many of
us from the organized religions.
These beliefs are often deep - seated, having been in place for years, due to programming in your childhood,
from organized religion and even the government.
More than half (55 %) say they just «drifted away»
from organized religion.
It seems she takes pleasure in nurturing that persona and is unaware of how her ecclesial elitism is one of the core problems driving people away
from organized religion.
I just feel like he's cut his strings
from organized religion, but I think he's going to learn a lot about God.
I've seen both very good and very bad fruit come
from organized religion — including Christianity — and prefer to think of each individual as spiritually unique rather than the sum of his or her religious culture.
So we can not entertain the idea that God orders public life through laws and directives coming
from organized religion or the institutional church.
Kimster a large majority of help to those in need comes
from ORGANIZED religion.
I have walked away
from organized religion due to my convictions concerning the loss of focus of the Christian religion today.
It seems the more you study, the higher your education, the further you want to distance
yourself from organized religion.
I got the h - ll away, far away
from any organized religion and even fellow believers.
Actually, the number of people moving away
from organized religion is increasing: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/14/169164840/losing-our-religion-the-growth-of-the-nones
It's clear from these results that agnostics are much more likely to move away
from organized religion, while Americans with no particular faith stand as a bridge between some faith and no faith.
Obviously you bother because you are no different
from organized religion in seeking to impose your vision on others.
The reason that more people, especially younger people, drift
from organized religion but retain a faith in a god is because we finally live in a world where it is okay to question religious «authority».
I'm a little newer than you in my journey away
from organized religion and while I may get to where you are, I'm trying not to throw the entire idea of God out the window along with organized religion.
The real reason most people in this country are turning away
from organized religion is that they see the damage it does everyday in the world.
When I was in religion, I didn't recognize this issue... but since removing
myself from organized religion, I see it more and more... it's success hinges on keeping people believing the promises.
This is also the group least alienated
from organized religion, the one that habitually tends to support churches.
It's behavior like this that turns the rational man away
from organized religion forever.
If these are true discuss these matters with I suppose Jeremy, but I would suggest disconnecting
from organized religion for awhile and seek God as am individual.
I was raised Mormon, but over the years my spiritual identity has shifted away
from organized religion and today, most of my transcendent experiences come from nature.
Not exact matches
I find it amazing that almost every
organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them
from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and doing charitable missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.
Maybe we can look at it as a phase that many Christians
from all demographics go through before a renewal, and that would be a good thing, for since
organized religion, hence dogma, doctrine, religious practices, etc., is the primary cause for parting ways, it is a wake up call for the Christian church.
If that was the only side of
organized religion that I encountered, I would run
from it as well.
That's why I left
organized religion all together — it was taking me away
from God, and I couldn't have that.
Father Callahan did not find his faith in the shallow trappings of his
organized religion but
from understanding the divine (the white) in himself.
It therefore would be a mistake to understand their animosities as «secular» in the contemporary sense; instead, they took aim at Catholicism and other
organized religion from their own theological position.
Seems to me
from a few of these posts that some Atheists want to push their agenda on everyone else just like other
organized religions.
Yes Vance, hard to characterize atheist, so many of my nephews / neices, and those folks I've met
from communist East Europe are angry with the Power in which they do not believe, hostile to
organized religion.
At the same time there is a new age wave that is beginning to gain momentum at a rate of 10,000 per week that are also walking away
from or have never connected to
organized religion.
As witnessed in the huge Exodus
from modern
organized religion.
Organized religion, and I'm referring to
organized «Christianity» in the USA, is a far, far cry
from the «church» we find in the New Testament.
(CNN)- This country is changing rapidly, and at the very time modern medicine puts life - or - death decisions in our hands,
organized religion has faded
from the lives of many Americans.
Since
organized religion and political systems often develop in tandem, its really impossible to separate the political motivations of events like the crusades
from the religious ones
What is he allowed himself to be crucified (by not commanding or otherwise
organizing a political kingdom or other form of resistance) because he knew
from stories and other traditions (or even the Jewish tradition) that a prophet / king is only understood for so long and gradually the
religion that spawns
from that individual corrupts into something that the prophet never would have wanted.
You'll find messages that dethrone
organized religion, declare cessation
from its overbearing rules and regulations, and generally renounce its presence.
I keep my faith seperate
from church & all the terrible things I hear about
organized religion (much of it here).
I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves
from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by
organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics
from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate
from the communal (social) benefits of their respective
religion (many atheists aren't either).
As an aside, I personally feel that
organized religion is becoming increasingly inconsequential, insignificant, and is demonstrating that it's nothing more spiritual than «big business», giving nothing in return for the billions of dollars it takes
from the masses.
a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but
organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can
from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)
The Nones» reluctance to commit to
organized religion may also stem
from the moral standards a traditional faith demands.
Without a compelling testimony to the transformative force of
organized religion, the None will linger curiously outside her shrines, buffered
from the communities of faith that could channel more wisely those persistent upward longings.
And then I see the same words, attitudes and behaviors here
from some of these commentators, and I realize — once again — why I do not belong to any
organized religion and why I will never believe what a self - professed «Christian» will say.
I mention, only because my... paradigm (I'm not much on beliefs, in the usual
organized religion sense)... includes a «Divine» of my own definition, that equates to something like «awe of life, love, and knowing that there is much we don't know» (< — sorry, not the easiest thing for me to get into words, hopefully that gets the gist of it) that I don't see as a «personal other», but, in my paradigm, I see that Divine as being systemic to everything, hence insights
from what I learn / experience can be termed as the Divine acting.
I have seen such bigotry in several forms with
organized religions (allegedly christian faiths), ranging
from ugly racism to excluding anyone who is deemed to not be righteous because of problems, personal decisions or being poor.
Tasawwuf is a spiritual path through which one seeks to rise above and evolve beyond the limited teachings, beliefs, rituals, practices, etc. of
organized religion, whether Islam or any other
religion, and establish a constant awareness of the One so as to receive all guidance
from the One through one's heart.
Teams
from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in
organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.
That does not mean that major contributions toward an inquiry into the nature of socioreligious phenomena were not made long before, but as an
organized systematic discipline (emancipated
from the older disciplines in and
from which it developed) the sociology of
religion is of recent date.
Regardless of what any of the Founding Fathers believed about
organized religion, they felt that our rights were «God» given, in the sense that they proceeded
from Natural Law and existed a-priori, with no need of proof or precedent.